Word: melancholia
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...three great tragic armies of working girls; those who, because of insufficient wage and excessive work, fall early victims to tuberculosis; those who, due to the strain of long hours, are succumbing to nervous prostration; and those who, because of worrying on the problem of mere existence, yield to melancholia...
...initial article of the number is a study of Budopest and its recent rapid development, by Mr. Albert Shaw, with a number of excellent illustrations by Joseph Pennell. Mr. Edmund Clarence Stedman contributes the fourth of his articles on the "Nature and Elements of Poetry," dealing this time with "Melancholia," and Emilio Castelar, the Spanish historian, publishes another chapter in his life of Columbus...
...Athenaeum records a sale at London of a number of the prints that have been heliotyped: Durer's "Melancholia," pound 31; Marc Antonio's "Adam and Eve," pound 59, and his "St. Cecilia," pound 50; Rembrandt's "Three Trees," pound 123; a print from Van Dyck's "Iconographia," pound...